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Superintendent of the National Pencil Company’s
factory still held b ythe police. Frank’s lawyer
says he has given to the police every detail of his whereabouts, not only in the factory, but outside
of it, to account for his time on Saturday and Sunday.
BE RELEASED
Gantt's Mother, for Whom Mary
Phagan Was Named, Weeps
for Son.
In an easy chair in front of an
. **n fir-place in a little <’obb Coun-
• farm hduse, sat an aped mother,
lines or RiifTering: marking her
a< e an.i her white head bowed in
orrotv. praying that her son may be
Vcfnd innocent of the terrible crime
’or wh'i h he 1s held by the Atlanta
For two days she -at in the same
* hai: stariri- onstantlv with dry
)
fire, seeing in the clouds of smoke
as they swirl upward into the chim
ney. visions of her son caged in a
felon’s cell her mind filled with ter
rible plettrres of her boy struggling
with the horrors of the “third de
gree.
The toother is Mrs. Mary Lou
Gantt. Her son is Japnes Milton
Gantt, the young bookkeeper who is
held by the police as a suspect in the
terrible murder of little Mary Phagan.
,Mrs. Gantt was prostrated when the
news of her son’s arrest was brought
to her Monday morning. Her boy
had been away from home for three
long weeks, and during that time
had ntivowly escaped death in an ac
cident at Copper Hill, Tenn.. where
he had been working.
Late Saturday evening she receiv
ed a letter from her son. saying that
he was coming home Monday. The
letter was filled with messages of
love that only a mother can appre
ciate. and the heart of Mrs. Gantt
was fill?d- with an unutterable Joy. I
Eagerly she awaited the dawning of}
Monday morning, counting the hours
which must elapse ere she could clasp
her son in her arms. At the break
of day she was up and preparing
. food that he had always liked. She
baked a cake with which to tempt
the appetite of the boy, and she don
ned the soft silk dress that he loved
to see '‘mother’’ wear.
At th** sound of every' footstep,
and every time the wheels of a wagon
crunched upon the hard country road
Mhe mother hastened to the door. But
the hours passed and he failed to
come. The warm food she had pre
pared go* cold, and the cake, made
an only a mother can make them,
stood uncut upon the table. At
1< ngth. as the hour of noon approach-
• d. a buegy came down the road. A
man alighted and hurried into the
house, where he told the mother that
her son was under arrest, charged
with the most terrible crime in the
history of the State—the murder of
little Mary Phagan.
The me (her, stabbed to the he&ri
by the message, ywooned in the arms
of her daughter, Mrs. George Black-
well. and was carried into the house.
For hoars six* lav on her bed, moan
ing and fobbing with the pain that
Evidence!
Secretary of State Urges Press
to Block Constantly Recurring
Attempts at Swindling.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has|
appealed to the pre s, not only of
Georgia, but of the entile nation, to j
help him stop, in so far as it may,
the constantly recurring attempts ai
swindling without this State with re*
sped to old fraudulent land grants
in Georgia.
Within the last, few weeks the Sec
retary -if State's office has been re-
eciviftg a steady stream of letters
from abroad, from victims of these
-eh'uti-’s. and as many of them ar»
Horn the far Northwest he has con
cluded that somebody in that vicinity
once more is undertaking th work this
old swindle to a finish.
The Sec retary blames Georgia offl-
als in a. way for the continued ac
tivity of this “fake” scheme, and sug-
g«-sis to the incoming Legislature
some rigid laws touching the mat-
n • sing the question to-day.
Secretary <’ook said:
“One reason why it i.* c o hard to
stop this swindle I- because there has
heefi no legislation In the State con
cerning i f since 1795, more than 10*
v.-ars ago. The acts of that year are
Vi"v very rare nowadays, and few
have access to them, thu*
stealing
rlytel
brain.
Mar •
The
eaft and
ared her
no
mil
that the negro, Newt Lee, had con
fessed and named the murderer, and
that her von would be released with
in a few hours. She sank again
into the depths of her sorrow when
she learned that the report was false,
and that her son was still a prisoner.
Feeling High in Marietta.
Feeling against the man who!
strangled little Mary Phagan runs
high in Marietta, while Gantt has thej
sympathy of man 1 '. The family stands
high in the business and social cir
cles of the little city, and not a mar.
could be found by a Georgian repor
ter yesterday afternoon who would 1
utter other than good about the young
man. Prominent citizens declared
that he was a young man of honor
and could not possibly be connected
with the crime. When the boy is
,i- hr, "Ah, lia- inert*-d leifreleased and fully exonerated of the
crime, or of any connection with it,
the citizens of Marietta are planning
such a reception .as wdll leave no
room for doubt in the minds of the
mother and of himself that the un
fortunate circumstances that led to
his arrest have not lessened their
high regard for him or for his fam
ily.
Young Gantt his lived most of his
life on a farm six miles from Mar
ietta. He was raised to manhood
there, and was and is considered one
of the finest young men the t’ouhty
rth, and 1 of Cobb has produced. For several
no more about j yeafs he taught school at the old
n I know rnv j Camp Grounds school house, and then
came to Atlanta to learn bookkfep-
ing. Three Weeks ago he received an
offer from California, and started
for the West. He was held up by
high water at Memphis and went to
work at Copper Hill. Tenn., where
he worked for a week. Then he was
one of the victims of an elevator ac
cident, and came home to recuperate.
He had been staying at his sister’s
home on Linden Av rt nue. and was on
yis way to visit his mother when he
w as arrested
Named for Gantt’s Mother.
•rlef of 'he mother that her
son should be charged with such a
monstrous crime Is all the more bit
ter because she las been the lif'-
long friend of tiie Phagan family.
She was present when little -Mary
Phagan came into the world, and the
little girl was j>: m^ti it, honor ot
her—Mary 1 .on Phagan. She has
locked thf dead hild to sleep, sooth
ed her with luilabh s and romped with
her in i’ghter moments. She was
inexpressibly eri ved when she learn
ed of the death <f the child, and til
nrrest
sorrow a hundred fold.
When a Georgian reporter called
at her home yesterday the mother,
with all the power of a mother's
love, protested -lie Innocence of her
‘-•on and declared Hint his arrest was
a terrible injustice.
‘■I know my bo. could nol do such
a terrible thing.” she cried, her tired
old lmdv shaking with grief. “H
was a grnd boy. I raised him right
end nothing on e irt/i could ever make
me believe that he has ever done
anything wring. I know my boy a-
t know no one c
swear that he kn
LEO FRANK’S FRIENDS
DENOUNCE DETENTION
mother trailed
nee. broken only by the
sobbing and the sob-
daughter. The latter
■ ' and stirred the Are,
<1 Marries shot up the
n i . ' 1 r rai.I.'d hei arms
right to take my boy
He didn’t do it! Oh.
r do it! They have
ting him with the
know as well as I
I b lie\ ‘
that :->:i
•-rave rnv
:X"Z Ilf! CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE
ndent. 1 believe h-
name to the police to
man, and i
* gets his just
tei n«»on the
and given
a message
RETAINS DEATH PENALTY
SACRAMENTO, April 30.—With
Secretary of State Bryan an Inter
e<t“d so.-c;ator. the California Legis
lature yesterday voted down a bll
abolish capital punishment.
Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the
National Pencil Company and one of
the central figures in the sensational
murder mystery surrounding the
death of little Mary Phagan, is well
regarded by a host of friends in At
lanta, who scoff at the idea that h*
can in any way be implicated in the,
horrible tragedy.
His friends are all loud in their de
nunciation of the efforts that have ap
parently been made to drag his name
into th* affair as a principal.
Mr. Frank. 2$ years of age. a na
tive of Brooklyn, N. Y., came to At
lanta about five years ago to take
charge of the plant of the National
Pencil Company. Three years* later
he married Miss Lueile Selig. daugh
ter of Mrs. E. Selig. of fiS East Geor
gia Avenue, and has since made his
home with Mrs. Selig.
Mr. Frank is a mechanical engineer
and a graduate of (Cornell University,
and prior to his coming to Atlanta
held a responsible position with the
B. F. Sturdevant Co., of Boston, Ma -
Shortly after he came to Atlanta
Mr Frank was sent to Europ to
study the art of pencil manufactur*
and is considered an expert in his
line.
Mr. Frank is popular in Jewish so
cial circles and an interested work- r
in several Jewish charitable organiza
tions, being president of the local
order B’nai Brlth.
Several of his most intimate friends
seen this morning, among them being
Arthur Haas, of the tirm of Haas &
McIntyre; Isaac Haas, president of
the Southern Spring Bed Co., and
Arthur Heyman. of the firm of Dor
sey, Brewster. Howell A. Heyman,
were* highly Incensed a the polio*
actions They were unanimous in
their characterization of him as a
clean-cut. manly man, with a zeal
for doing good for others
“The very idea that he could in
any way l>e implicated in till s’ horrible
affafir is simply preposterous.’’ sev
eral, of them said.
Among ills employees at the pencil
factory .Mr. Frank was unusually pop
ular and yesterday when'he was taken
to headquarters for further question
ing hv the detectives, f*gv< ral of the j
girls and worm n weot bitterly and
protested loudly their belief in Ills!
absolute innocence of any complicity
in
the matt«
'•r whatever.
Mr. Ft
■a n I
: is held in
hi
gh rej
?ard
by
the* r
>ffic
ers of the <
‘ompan.v
a n d
is
adinired
and respect
ed
by those
working
unt
ler him and
th'
» belie
f of
th
ose at
th<
factory is
at he
will
be
able
to (
establish his
at
>so Jute
in-
nc
•cence
of
any connect
ion
with
High School Pupils
Made Drug Slaves
Cleveland Pharmacists Get Boy Vic
tims to Sell It, Investigators
Are Tofd.
CLEVELAND, April 30. Hundreds
of boys and glrle attending the West
Technical High School and the Cen
tral High School are addicted to the
use of drugs, according to evidence
unearthed by detectives employed by
the State Board of Pharmacy.
According io one girl victim, who
stole money to buy heroin, a drug
stor* rieer one high school brakes a
practice of selling to pupils. T;
druggist
them t*
said: “
ply to |
i to have employ
drug to sell it.
boys yaw fellow pupils
■*i of headaches. had
other ills they advised
'
riser always had a sup-
ay. Then it was easy
he who'once had used
ALABAMA COAL AND IRON
COMPANY REORGANIZES
nakir.g th
work.
“The.se old acts, fraudulent, an*
time and again so declared by this
office, were recorded, j evertheless
away back yonder, in Montgomery
Laurens and other counties, and the
records still are there A purchase!
of a fraudulent grant simply writes
in to Laurens, say. and for a fee the
records from the old books are mad*
out and forwarded. It is not ex
plained, however, as it should be, that
these records are not worth a penny,
because no such land grants realls
exist.
“I think it Is v rong and should he
prohibited by legislation for officials
to forward these records without ex
plaining that tney are no good. More
than one correspondent ha- com
plained to me that it seemed a shame
that the State, through even a county
official, should have misled him. in
such a matter, and that it p-.< -the
State in a pretty bad light. I agree
with him heartily. It docs put the
State in j. bad light—It puts it in an
utterly Indefensible light. It puis the
county in an even worse light, if pos
sible.’
One man in the West purchased
from a swindler 250,000 res of this
fi*a udulently granted land in Georgia
and paid the handsome sum of 5 cents
per acre. It wasn’t worth, of course.
5 cents altogether—that is, the so-
called title wasn’t. Yet it was, in a
wav, ayoaiently backed by some sort
of color of title.’
Whenever inquiry is made of the
Secretary of State before purchase he
can, and does, stop the game. How
ever, a few swindlers continue to get
by. despite his befct efforts.
It may be that he can induce the
incoming Legislature to taass a iaw
prohibiting comity officials from for
warding these old fraudulent records,
unless when accompanied by a cer
tificate setting forth their worthless
ness.
Alexander A. Lawrence, of Ghat-
ham. is in Atlanta’s midst.
Mr. Lawrence brought his new
straw .lid up with him—really it’s a
new’ one this time!—but was inclined
to complain of the coolish weather he
encountered. It already is mid-sum
mer in Savannah, of course
“The w alking da legate from Chat
ham” still refuses to say he will
stand for Editor Stovall’s legislative
assignment, after that gentleman
resigns to accept the Swiss mission,
but as there is an uprising of tlie
people on in respect of this matter, he
may be compelled to change his mind.
It is possible that the next Speaker
might decline to swear in anybody
other than Lawrence as Stovall’s suc
cessor.
Barry Wright. R presentative-elect
from Floyd, fresh from his honey
moon, is an Atlanta visitor.
The old report that Mr Wright
would fight the proposed tax on bach
elor.- in th»- next Legislature is un
founded. He explains that he doesn’t
care a hoot what becomes of bach-
elors!
Representative Charles R. Crisp
made his first speech in the new Con
gress a "day or so ago, but a number
of State papers are in error when
they refer to it as his “maiden speech
in the House.”
Mr Criep served a short term in
the House several years ago. just afi-
JiFtingulshed fathar, the la
Speaker Charles F Crisp, died, and
made one speech, if not two, during
that term of serVice.
He served about three months, hav
ing been elected to his father’s unex-
-pired term by the Speaker’s district.
m • a sort of lQving testimonial to the
dead man’s memory.
The younger Crisp bids fair to fol
low closel y in la is father's footsteps,
and already has taken a high stand in
C ’ongress.
Judge Augustus W. Fite, of the
Cherokee dri nit, is losing no sleep
whatever over the talk of cutting the*
Cherokee circuit in half, Hnce lie no
tices that it is carefully proposed to
see that he gets one of the halves to
preside over.
Inasmuch, indeed, as the Cherokee
most unwieldy jt
LTlM( )RE.
Company, tin- i
ration f*
f»ril 30.—The newly
of the Alabama
Delaware corpo-
•quire the property
of the old Alabama < onsolldatert < oai
K- Iron Company, will meet to-day.
It Is exp '< 5 steps will be taken
circuit is now th
the State, his honor in
favor the cutting Idea.
The Cherokee circuit is the hardest
in Georgia t<* serve. It takes up all of
la judge’?* time to get arouhd, and a
'good part of his salary for expenses.
If the judge can g* * a new circuit,
about half the size of his present one,
and no cut dovVn in salary, why—
well, what’s the matter with that,
anyway
It is doubtfa:
harder worked
Judge Fite.
btful whether there is a
ted jMdgc in Georgia than
In 1 hf* photograph art' shown the dross, the shoes, the hat. a stocking and the hair ribbons
In Marv Phagan when she was murdered; also twine noose with which she was strangled.
By baptist m
Attendance by Young Men In
creases From Thirty to Four
Hundred in Two Months.
The young men’s class of th** Sec
ond Baptist Sunday school is claim
ing the Atlanta record. In two
months the membership has increased
from 30 to 400 am
is confidently expec
number nearly 600.
As a matter of fact the “class'
a Sunday school in itself. If
grown so large and so rapidly
teacher, Thomas J. Day, found
necessary to hold meetin
the hour for th
school meetings.
the
It
before
Sunday
smaller
ers. spec
soloists
If one
' >1T 1
new position he
it by going to t
reau established
days the young
two athletic fb
tennis, and eve
It Is divided into
•s, has several teae.i-
rcheatra, glee club and
among the members,
the young men wants a
lsualiy secure
employment bu-
eently. On week
n can g<> to the
for baseball •;
Thursday night
there th?
there is a “social” smoker
young men get acquainted.
The class started on its boom w hen
the membership - ampaign was in
augurated between the Ghristia’h and
Baptist churches. Sunday before last
the attendance was 310. The last
Sunday it Jumped to 400, and to-day
every member of the class is working
to swell it to 600 by next Sunday.
It won’t stop there, however, say
those who ate at the head of the
class.
The new members are being re
cruited from those who are not mem
bers of any Sunday school, or church,
and have been somewhat lax In their
devotionals—and there are so many
of these, said Mr. Day, the instructor,
that it was doubtful whether atl?
member had been taken from other
denominations
THE PLAYS
THIS WEEK
STOCK COMPANY POPULAR.
“A Butterfly on the Wheel.” a* pre
sented this week at the Atlanta by
Miss Billy Long ahd her stock com
pany. is proving a real treat for pa
trons of that theater. Two perform
ances before critical audiences have
put the offering in good running or
der and the matinee this afternoon
will doubtless be well attended.
Miss Long and her associate play
ers are hard workers and they do
not stint themselves to make each
play as comp
ete ns possible in its
n. “A Butterfly on the
full of strong scenes and
calls for acting of u superior or-
dtr. The company at the Atlanta
appears to good advantage in it.
There will be no performance of
the play this evening or to-morrow
evening, the theater having been en
gaged for other purposes. It will 1 e
presented, however, the balance of
the week with matinee Saturday.
WESTERN PLAY AT THE LYRIC.
“Billy, the Kid,” a melodrama with
all of its scenes laid in the Far West,
is proving popular with Lyric au
diences. The play Is chock full of
fiction. There is something doing
from the time the curtain rises on
the first act until it descends at the
end of the last. Berkeley Haswell.
in the title role, has won many
friends by his admirable interpreta
tion of the part,
and Saturday.
OIOS PRETTY»
TO FILL CHURCHES
Brooklyn Pastor Declares Beau
ties Could Draw Big Con
gregations Every Sunday.
Men like to be worked by a
woman’s tactful ingenuity.
Woman can never be so win
some a hen she is nagging and ir
ritable as when she is tactful and
diplomatic.
Quo n Esther's attire was
probably not equal to a Welch
creation, but it helped to sway
an empire.
Beauty is no credit to woman;
it’s a terrible responsibility.
King Ahasuems was the anti-
woman’s rights man of his day.
Matinee to-morrow
Wear Gowns of Same
Color as Their Gems
VAUDEVILLE AT FORSYTH.
it is a made to order bill of vau
deville at the Forsyth this w r eek. It
opens with a. gymnastic act that is
worth while Then comes two clever
children, followed by a novelty In
the way of a singing act, closely fol
lowed by two pretty girls who have
won favor. Even the headliner is
noW In the favorite class. Next o
e show is a comedian who
even the attaches of the
ugh at four performances.
Mme Rlano and Miss Boardman Set
the Example for Washington
Soc v.
WASHINGTON. April 30. Madame
Riano, wife ot the Spanish Minister, I
and Miss Mabel Boardman, of Red j
Gross fame, have united to influence j
Washington society women to design
their evening gowns to be in har
mony with th< ir favorite jewels. i
Madam* Riano’s opals and her opal f
gowns have been admired nil winter. I
Miss Boardman proud of her hand - •
some pendant of diamonds and rubies j
which was presented to her by the'
King of Italy in commemoration of;
her w ork at the time of the Messinu I
disaster. Bhe has worn gowns of rea,
and ruby velvet and chiffon
winter.
Miss Katherine Kikins frequently
wears veilow’ and cream lace gowns
to set off her magnificent topaz or
naments.
act sends everyone
home feeling that they are glad the
Forsyth is hack in the running and
that vaudeville is the policy.
Sophye Barnard, Lou Anger and
Company present a playlet that is
unusual. It is good. Better still i»
i59 a. hit. Chris Rochards the English
comedian, has eclipsed some of his
American brothers in the art of laugh
making, and Miss Muriel and Frauds
a o surely scoring a worth while hit.
All the acts arc good. That’s why
the tln-ater Is filled. There will be
the usual two performances daily an*:
if the demand for seats doesn’t let
up. standing room ’ will be at a
premium the rest of the week.
Next week the headliner will be
Gus Edwards' Kid Kabaret, fifteen
jolly happy prancing girls and boys.
A feature* act will be Belle Story, a
stately beauty, who is also some vo
calist.
BROOKLYN. X. Y„ April 30.—
Above ire some of the epigrams that
the Rev. S. Edward Young uttered
in his sermon at *Te Bedford Reform
ed Church of Biooklyn. His topic
“The Young Woman Whose Attrac
tiveness Gives Her Power,” was bas
ed on the story cf Esther, the Jewess
who swayed a trrone and whose in
fluence i? credited with saving her
race from extinction.
“The attractive young women of
this part of Brooklyn,” said the
pastor, ‘could fill every church in the
ity every Sunday night if they used
their beauty and their attractiveness
in the right way. It’s their fault,
moreover, that the churches aren’t
filled.
“There is scarcely a circle of en
tertainment, however flagrant, in
Brooklyn to-night that doesn’t con
tain at least one woman who has the
power and the attractiveness to
transfer the whole group to the house
of God.
“Attractiveness is a God-given
power. Before It leaves you, young
women, before your beauty fades, be
fore your day is gone, use it to the
best advantage. If you do the
churches will b filled to the doors
of a Sunday evening.”
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